I first learnt of quarving from my then teenage daughter. She had come home from school complaining that no one had quarved her and seeing my puzzled face, she explained that it meant being given a gentle slap on the…
I don’t like dogs. I don’t like cats either, in short, I am not an animal lover. I am just a lover of babes… So this happened before I married my wife, Bibi; she was the one I was dating…
The Advisory Board for The Nigeria Prize for Literature has announced a shortlist of 11 books and writers for the 2021 edition of the NLNG prize. The list of 11 was distilled from 202 books and writers who sent in…
Resource Intermediaries Limited (RIL), Nigeria’s pre-eminent outsourcing company rolled out the drums on July 1, 2021, in compliance with Covid-19 regulations, to celebrate its 15th year of easing the business burdens of its clients. Established in 2006, RIL as it…
Evelyn Joshua is the new name in town. As the wife of the late founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Temitope Joshua, she has been nominated by the church’s council to replace him as General Overseer of…
I turned 15 just as I got into university. I admit I was very lucky. I finished primary school from class 5, got into secondary school the set before the 6-3-3-4 system started, did the WAEC and JAMB examinations just…
You can call it a scandal but from where we come from, this sort of thing is common. My brother died after the so called brief illness. He fell sick and according to his wife, she took him to the…
…reflections on our fear of failure and how it stops us from attempting new things I worked on a transformation project for the Federal Ministry of Education early on in my career. It was a large project that involved several…
Small girls these days are trying, o. They are smarter than their elders, I swear! All the news I have heard about the Super TV boss that was murdered has left me wondering especially with many people saying the man…
He was just about to turn 50 and she was just 21! Life had just begun for both of them on different levels; he, turning the golden age and still attracting the attention of a young woman; she, as fine…
